Error time: Learning from mistakes can be key to personal, professional growth

There's a lot to learn from being wrong, says Bryan Powell, a former high school teacher and current tour guide in Washington, D.C. "I used to tell my students that all great things started from a mistake, that great actions, great inventions, great pieces of literature and art -- they all began after one or two big errors or a couple of bad rough drafts," says the 37-year-old father of two.

For Powell, that mistake happened during his first year out of the University of Maryland when he was "doing grunt work" for a large insurance company in Virginia. "I basically allowed a client to make a fraudulent claim, a really dumb, obviously phony claim. It took a few court dates and a lot of legal work to get my company out of the mess," he says.

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